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Notwithstanding all the wrongs that slavery heaped upon me, I can bless it for one thing-youth's important lesson of self-reliance.
— Elizabeth Keckley
I was born a slave-was the child of slave parents-therefore I came upon the earth free in God-like thought, but fettered in action.
— Elizabeth Keckley
When I heard the words, I felt as if the blood had been frozen in my veins, and that my lungs must collapse for the want of air. Mr. Lincoln shot!
— Elizabeth Keckley
Friends are a recompense for all the woes of the darkest pages of life.
— Elizabeth Keckley
The distinguishing mark of man is the hand, the instrument with which he does all his mischief.
— George Orwell
If you feed the poor, you're a saint. If you ask why they're poor, you're a Communist.
— Dorothy Day
None of us are perfect, for which reason we should heed the voice of charity when it whispers in our ears, Do not magnify the imperfections of others.
— Elizabeth Keckley
But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably.
— Aldous Huxley
I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.
— Matthew Rhys
Every limit presupposes something beyond it.
— Vladimir Nabokov